ENG364Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Pastoralism
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Only recognize a distorted, reflected, 2d self. Sent to a psychiatrist because she goes for walks and doesn"t want to go to school. Being in nature = seen as unnatural thing. Symbolism of salamander: unchanged by fire in mythology but montag is changed by what"s going on. Phoenix: rise from the ashes through burning. Animal imagery: they change; transformative quality through fire. Mildred likes to go really fast and mow down animals. Don"t treat animals that well suggesting something about relationship with natural world. Terrifying that what used to be a dog is now a predator. Hedonic, pastoralism reversion to the past. The idea of what"s natural/unnatural = turned around. Paradox of preserving everything but it resulted in this. Makes it sound like the wife is already dead; no warmth there.
